So this last month my hubby came home and told me that his young men's group (teachers) asked to climb Mt Borha ( the tallest mountain in Idaho). Crazy enough my hubby agreed to it. The challenge began when we tried to find other youth leaders to come climb with us. Sure enough loads of people said NO and then a handful said Maybe... which turned out to be a later NO.
So lucky me, I stupidly volunteered to go be a leader too. Well the grand total turned out to be 5 young men and 3 Leaders and one baby. Two of the leaders where Doug and I and the last leader was a mother of one of the boys on the trip! Crazy!!!
So we borrowed an SUV from a friend and set up camp at the base of the mt on a Friday night. We had a lovely dinner made by the boys (noodles with Chicken soup)... yum haha.
We are so grateful for the suv that night due to a very rambunctious child named Brooklyn.
She got startled awake at midnight and screamed for a good twenty minutes until I could calm her down. Phew thankful for those insulated walls of the suv instead of the paper think tent walls.
Mommy and Bug getting ready for bed.
Brooklyn loves to say cheese now whenever the Iphone comes out.
She loves her daddy for sure!!1
Well morning came at 4:30 am and bug and mommy were still out for the count. So Daddy and the others headed up the trail to the mt. It is a 12 hour hike to the top and back. Only ten minutes into it one of the boys threw up and so Doug had to bring him back to base camp and let him sleep. So I ended up with a daddy to comfort bug in the morning when she finally woke up!
This is our not so morning face!
Ok now we are happy cus daddy said it is breakfast time.
So after we got up and moving ( 8:30am ) we were able to get up Trevor (sick boy) and convinced him to come on a short hike with us. Little did he know we had planned on at least making it to Tree-Line. Which happens to be 3/4 of the way up the mountain.
This is bug, mommy and Trevor just after we passed the "Throw up point". We kept encouraging Trevor farther up the trail.
This is mommy and Bug at one of our water break stops. I weighed Brooklyn right before we went on this hike and She weighed 25lbs. Just thought I would share the amount of weight that I was packing up this mountain.
This is daddy and Bug during a snack break. We only took one of these breaks cus it was such a steep trail that we couldn't just have Brooklyn out of the pack, for fear of her tumbling down the mt.
At one point she wanted to walk up some of the trail. My poor hips were killing me so I helped her a few feet and then she went back in the pack.
So of course Brooklyn fell asleep right after we switched her to daddy. So poor Doug had to deal with the dead weight and a the fact that little one kept slumping to one side.
This is a very steep trail as you can see. This is my super hero hubby packing little bug up the mt.
Brooklyn woke up just as we reached "Tree-line". That is 10,000 feet. So we decided that was high enough for little bug and we didn't want to risk her having any light headed moments because we went any higher.
This is our little family of three at the top of our destination of Mt Borha. NO we didn't climb to the very top of Mt Borha, but we got 3/4 of the way up. And to top this all off we were the only ones with a child on the mt.
Another family photo opportunity. We had to wait our turn to head down a certain part of the mt because some other hikers were heading down and were moving slightly faster cus they didn't have a super heavy pack. As they passed us they told us we were "hard core" to be packing a little one up the mt. I think crazy would be a better word.
Brooklyn kept blowing raspberries down her daddy's neck just to help cool him off. She was a perfect angel most of the hike. We started at 8:30 am and hiked for many hours. Once we got down it was 3pm, so that was nearly 7 hours in a pack. She was a golden child to have put up being in a pack that long, since we hadn't really test trialed her being in it either. It was also her very first hike too!
Yup that is my beautiful little girl throwing a massive fit because she had mommy packing her and not daddy. She rather look at the back of daddy's head then mommy's. What a little Punk!
This is only 20 minutes from base camp on our way back down the mt.
Brooklyn wanted to be on daddy's shoulders instead of the pack. Yes that is dirt all over her face. She decided to pick up a fist full and eat it. I was really struggling with the fact that she was covered from head to toe in dirt and there was no real way of keeping her clean. Major germ issues for mommy that camping trip.
Two happy hikers.
This is where all heck broke loose. Brooklyn had had enough of this hike and wanted to be done. We were less than 10 minutes from base camp and she refused to go any further. She wouldn't allow us to put her in the pack, to be held by daddy, or mommy, and she wouldn't really walk either. She would just slump down and scream. She was tired of this whole adventure. So in the end Doug threw her over his shoulder (fireman style) and carried her kicking and screaming down all the way to base camp. I swear every hiker with in a 100 mile radius could hear her. Talk about mommy's worst nightmare come true and there was no where I could run or get this situation under control. So that was just how life was as we finished the final leg of the hike.
Other than her slight tantrum off the mt it was truly the most amazing adventure our little family of three did. I was so exhausted after that hike and can't wait to do it again in two years when the youth do it again. But we will not be bringing our little Brooklyn next time. We will probably hand her off to one of the grandparents for a day or two. Cus we won't probably get that great of a hike when she is three years old and there is no way I will be packing a three year old up Mt Borha. So until I write again I hope all is great in your neck of the woods!
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